Language Arts & Disciplines - General

The literature of the western world begins with one of its greatest achievements. The stories of the wrath of Achilles and its consequences, and of the wanderings of Odysseus, have been admired from ancient times to the present day. The two great epics can...

This volume examines the area of second language vocabulary studies from three broad perspectives: description, acquisition and pedagogical context. The fifteen chapters are grouped together to achieve a balance between descriptions of what vocabulary is and how it behaves, how the mind learns and...

Author: DanihelISBN-10: 1382036000ISBN-13: 9781382036009Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2023Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 10.79h x 8.64w x 0.33d

Four complete Practice Tests from UCLES plus answer key, audio transcripts and introduction to the exam. Providing the most authentic exam preparation available, these past papers allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination...

Author: Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones, David SchthalISBN-10: 1107143470ISBN-13: 9781107143470Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2023Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Here is a book full of little short stories dressed up in the clothing of limericks. They are illustrated also. They are more of my personal favorites.If you look up "limericks" in the dictionary, you'll find a definition that mentions words like "humorous", "bawdy",...

Comprehensive commentaries on the Homeric texts abound, but this commentary concentrates on one major aspect of the Odyssey--its narrative art. The role of narrator and narratees, methods of characterization and scenery description, and the development of the plot are discussed. The study aims to...

Author: SullivanISBN-10: 1382036078ISBN-13: 9781382036078Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2023Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 10.93h x 8.30w x 0.27d

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at Indiana University. It includes fourteen papers on a variety of topics, with a diversity of first and second languages, and a wide range of methods...

Be sure to click our name, for more class specific notebooks that match your high school or college class schedule Take good notes and stay organized with these jotter notebooks with common class names clearly written on the cover. Each book is 8.5 x10...

First published in 2010. 500 Common Chinese Idioms is a unique tool for learners. Presenting the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms or 'chengyu', this dictionary presents: The idiom in both simplified and traditional characters The idiom in pinyin romanisation A literal English translation...

This book focuses on utilizing the learner's professional knowledge and experience. Teaching strategies that are relevant to the business student's special needs are presented.Author: Mark Ellis, Christine JohnsonISBN-10: 0194371670ISBN-13: 9780194371674Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/1994Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.66h x 6.57w x 0.54d

This book describes the Chi, a force that determines the destiny of individuals. It explores other Igbo words and their relationship with life phenomenon. It deals extensively with the root of Igbo words and what they communicate. "Monumental work"- Prof. Elochukwu Amucheazi, Chairman Governing...

This edition of the first book of Ovid's "Amores" was first published in 1973 by OUP. It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams' "Horace 'Odes'...

Bring the fun back into your classroom! There are many fun ideas to get students confident with talking and using conversational English expressions. Also, pronunciation and story narration is free on YouTube, so learners can get the pronunciation at their own pace. It is...

Administrators and teachers need defensible evidence of English language learners' growth and achievement to drive their decision making! This groundbreaking book provides a field-tested approach to accountability for ELLs. Gottlieb and Nguyen propose the BASIC (Balanced Assessment and Accountability System, Inclusive and Comprehensive) model....

Over summer break on a farm in Emporia, Kansas, two friends Victor Michini and Christian Combs develop an iconic science project that leads to their school receiving math, science, and engineering scholarships. Both Victor and Christian have been friends since kindergarten, and their parents...

Clear focus on its application of formal logic to ordinary English is the most distinctive feature of this textbook for the introductory course in deductive logic. Great care is taken with the appropriate translation into logical languages of ordinary English sentences. Evaluation of these...

Author: Oxford University PressISBN-10: 1382007191ISBN-13: 9781382007191Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2021Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.04lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.75w x 0.01d

This book has two parts. Part one presents a grammatical sketch of the Hixkaryana language--which is a member of the Carib language family and is spoken in northern Brazil--and the other part suggests the place Hixkaryana has in syntactic typology.Author: Desmond C. DerbyshireISBN-10: 0883120828ISBN-13:...

This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 0862920744ISBN-13: 9780862920746Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1991Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.90w x 0.43d

A complete course for beginners wanting to speak the standard dialect of Pashto spoken in Pakistan. The book uses dialogues, power phrases, grammar, poetry and proverbs to help anyone learn the colloquial spoken style of Pashto that is now the biggest single dialect of...

A group of Argive women has come to Eleusis to ask King Theseus and his city of Athens to bring about the burial of their sons who are being denied it by their Theban conquerors. Theseus is confronted with a challenge which at first...

Change is linked to human life and it comes out as a metamorphosis; a complex mutation. It's both marvelous and strange as it seeks out beauty in a constant search through poetry in order to put the right words on nature's extraordinary prodigies. Everything...

How so you get children excited adn engaged with books? Get them onstageAuthor: Elizabeth Ann PoeISBN-10: 0838910491ISBN-13: 9780838910498Publisher: ALA EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2013Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): School Library Journal 08/01/2013 pg. 131Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2013 pg....

The must have guide for all secondary English teachers, with each Common Core reading standard deconstructed into specific skills for daily instruction. Don't waste time creating objectives because each skill is provided an objective, as well as an aligned measurable activity to determine understanding....

Chapter I - Acquiring Confidence Before an Audience, Chapter II - The Sin of Monotony, Chapter III - Efficiency Through Emphasis and Subordination, Chapter IV - Efficiency Through Change of Pitch, Chapter V - Efficiency Through Change of Pace, Chapter VI - Pause and...

The Limits of Language concerns itself with the nature and limits of language at a time when our understanding of the world and of ourselves is intimately related to what we understand of language.Author: Stephen David RossISBN-10: 0823215180ISBN-13: 9780823215188Publisher: Fordham University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1993Pages:...

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical...

Drawing from the work of high school teachers across the country, Adventurous Thinking illustrates how advocating for students' rights to read and write can be revolutionary work.Ours is a conflicted time: the #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo movements, for instance, run parallel with increasingly hostile attitudes...

During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, southern France witnessed first a burgeoning, then a decline in the poetry of women troubadours--trobairitz. These women stood both within and outside the troubadour tradition, so their work is interesting for social and literary-historical reasons as well as...

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the...

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution captured the Victorian imagination with vivid pictures of a society in conflict. A rich, brilliant, and arresting book, it defined a crucial epoch in modern European history for generations of British readers. Nevertheless, The French Revolution has...

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the...

Two major French medieval literary works that claim to teach their readers the art of love are virtually torn apart by the contradictions and conflicts they contain. In Andreas Capellanus's late twelfth-century Latin De amore, the author instructs his friend Walter in the amatory...

Author: John EscottISBN-10: 0194247694ISBN-13: 9780194247696Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2010Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.06lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.75w x 0.10d

Since the publication of the first edition in 1964, Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias has served singers, teachers of singing, and students of lyric diction as a guide to the correct pronunciation of songs in foreign languages.Author: Berton CoffinISBN-10: 0810815338ISBN-13: 9780810815339Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage:...

Author: Alex RaynhamISBN-10: 0194643832ISBN-13: 9780194643832Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2011Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 7.71h x 5.87w x 0.29d

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Merritt RuhlenISBN-10: 0804712506ISBN-13: 9780804712507Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1987Pages: 492Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.77lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.33w x 1.26dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 03/01/1987

Author: Hardy GouldISBN-10: 0194639029ISBN-13: 9780194639026Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2019Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.23h x 5.75w x 0.27d

Author: Rea-DickinsISBN-10: 0194371387ISBN-13: 9780194371384Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/1992Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.68h x 6.93w x 0.41d

It s not easy for teachers to hold the attention of today's junior high students They re easily distracted and lose interest quickly. Here s a reading curriculum designed to challenge them to think. Written by an experienced reading teacher and workshop leader, it...

Author: OxfordISBN-10: 0194239632ISBN-13: 9780194239639Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2011Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.72w x 0.14d

From the smallest fly to the biggest elephant, and from fish living at the bottom of the ocean to birds that fly several kilometres above land: this is the animal kingdom, the biggest group of living things in the world. Some are very different,...

Embracing Diversity is about the craft of teaching, with a particular focus on celebrating the myriad of human identities through classic, contemporary, and unconventional texts. Secondary English language arts educators narrate their own experiences and provide insights by reflecting on aspects of everyday pedagogy....

This volume contains classical Greek text with English notes, and is a companion volume to "Sidgwick's Greek Prose Composition".Author: A. SidgwickISBN-10: 071561696XISBN-13: 9780715616963Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/1995Pages: 109Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.96h x 4.94w x 0.27d

Explore a new language with these entertaining puzzles!Great for students or kids, this book has 150 puzzles full of words for the beginner to find.The words come from a mixture of categories such as animals, food, clothing and family. They can be found horizontally,...

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: Julie Otsuka novels "When the Emperor was Divine"(2002) and "The Buddha in the Attic" (2011) narrate the collective...

Freire and Macedo analyse the connection between literacy and politics according to whether it produces existing social relations, or introduces a new set of cultural practices that promote democratic and emancipatory change.Author: Paulo Freire, Donaldo MacedoISBN-10: 0710214170ISBN-13: 9780710214171Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/1987Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize:...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...